Guide to Garden Cultivators, Things You Need to Know

April 1, 2015 by Leo Holt

Technology has made our lives easy. People with a green thumb know exactly how much hard work it takes to plant and maintain a beautiful lawn and garden. But with the help of technology, anyone can have a stunning lawn or garden, as machines like garden cultivators can greatly eliminate all the pain-staking labor of gardening. If you’re planning to have a beautiful garden or lawn in the future, then it is your job to find cultivators for sale as early as today.

When you buy cultivators for your garden or lawn, you will be mixing soil, remove weeds, aerate and cultivate your garden between each row, using one handy machine. Cultivators are specially designed to be versatile and do as many gardening tasks as you can imagine. There can be lots of for sale cultivators in your area. But like any newbie in gardening, choosing the right one for your garden can be daunting. In this entry, we will guide you through the different things and aspects you need to know about this machine.

How it Works

Garden cultivators can significantly cut your work in your garden short, from preparing the soil for a new planting, to mixing compost, fertilizers, and manure. It’s also an ideal tool for getting soil ready and healthy in between perennials and trees. Cultivators come with rotating blades (sometimes called tines), powered by a small motor and used similar to gas-powered lawnmowers, can be pushed or self-propelled, depending on the type and model.

The Rotavotor

The word rotavator may sound fancy, but it’s simply a shortened word for rotary cultivator (sometimes called as rotary plough, rotary tiller, etc.), which means a motorized electric or petrol cultivator.

Electric or Gas-Powered?

Though there are now different models of cultivators for sale from different brands, the types can be narrowed down to two things – electric-powered and gas-powered cultivator. Deciding comes down to the two things actually.

Electric Type

Electric-powered machines, obviously, need to be plugged to a power source. An electric type is cheaper and perfect for small gardening tasks that are within close vicinity of a power outlet. It’s relatively light, compact making storage easy, and very simple to handle. It operates quietly, making it perfect for places where machine noise is a concern, and the best choice for small and medium gardens.

Gas-Powered Type

Gas-powered or petrol-powered cultivators, obviously, need filling of gasoline. The type can cover a huge ground, and it has the power you will need for big gardens and lawns. They’re significantly more powerful than electric types, and because they rip the soil up, they can be hard to control. You will be engaging a lot of forearm muscle just to control the machine. They are demanding when it comes to maintenance, but if you’re looking for a cultivator for your garden beds, far away from an electrical source, this type is for you.

Parting Tips

Search for shops with cultivators for sale that offer versatile machines to help you in all of your gardening needs. A front-tine cultivator will be a more versatile choice, especially if it comes with various attachments for aerating, dethatching, edging and plowing. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivator.

To get the best versatility, choose a machine that is fully equipped not just to counter-rotate for tilling, but also rotate forward to cultivate soil.

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